Suzanne Dracius | |
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Born | Fort-de-France | August 25, 1951
Occupation | Author, professor |
Alma mater | Sorbonne |
Website | |
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Suzanne Dracius (born August 25, 1951) in Fort-de-France, in the Terres-Sainville district) is a French writer from Martinique. [1]
After studying at the Lycée Marie-Curie in Sceaux and at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Dracius taught in Paris, then at the University of the French Antilles and in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and the University of Ohio. [2]
Suzanne Dracius defines herself as a Kalazaza, a creole word meaning a light skinned mixed race person; she claims African, European, Indian, Caribbean and Chinese ancestry. She has made the fight against any kind of racial, sexual or social discrimination the issue and the subject of her writing. [3] Her books L’Autre qui danse and Rue Monte au Ciel have been translated into English as Climb to the Sky and The dancing other, and Italian; also an anthology of poetry, Calazaza's delicious dereliction : poems. [4] [5] [6]
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Suzanne Dracius | |
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Born | Fort-de-France | August 25, 1951
Occupation | Author, professor |
Alma mater | Sorbonne |
Website | |
www |
Suzanne Dracius (born August 25, 1951) in Fort-de-France, in the Terres-Sainville district) is a French writer from Martinique. [1]
After studying at the Lycée Marie-Curie in Sceaux and at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Dracius taught in Paris, then at the University of the French Antilles and in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and the University of Ohio. [2]
Suzanne Dracius defines herself as a Kalazaza, a creole word meaning a light skinned mixed race person; she claims African, European, Indian, Caribbean and Chinese ancestry. She has made the fight against any kind of racial, sexual or social discrimination the issue and the subject of her writing. [3] Her books L’Autre qui danse and Rue Monte au Ciel have been translated into English as Climb to the Sky and The dancing other, and Italian; also an anthology of poetry, Calazaza's delicious dereliction : poems. [4] [5] [6]
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